What causes you anxiety?
 

What are the things that cause you anxiety, things that cause you so much anxiety, you can't handle it?

For me, it's when it's easy to get in trouble.

What about you?

Anxiety is allowing a fear to control you. I'm so type A I never let anything control me. :lol:

Oh god... a few things, but I'm very good at avoiding things that trigger them these days.

Fear of failure and being in situations that I can't control are the two biggies. I'm a lot better at managing it than I used to be though. :)

Nothing causes me more anxiety than knowing that there's a spider in the room and there's nobody else around to kill it for me though! :lol:

Fear of failure is a big one for me. Also family drama is another one that causes me anxiety, but I do my best not to let it get to me.

Everything. I stay frustrated all the time because life is sort of a bitch, lol. This leads to a lot of anger and a lot of anxiety. You just have to dust yourself off, get out of bed and move on. It sucks but that's life.

Any situation that means that I have to get up and speak in front of people.

You know that Feeling you get when all sense and intelligence leaves your mind at once in a matter of 2 seconds?

Yeah, that's what it feels like to me.

Money. There's never enough of it, and it goes out faster than it comes in.

Making mistakes.

We all make them, but when I catch myself making one [especially in front of loved ones or people I know look up to me; not so much strangers] I beat myself up endlessly for it after I'm done trying to get my fears and heart rate to go down. Even little things like calling somebody by the wrong name or using the wrong word in a sentence -- things everybody does -- I get irrationally anxious over.

Anybody remember in the 2k3 episode "Hunted" when Leonardo steps on a land mine by accident and beats himself the **** up over it, repeatedly calling himself stupid for making a perfectly normal mistake? That's me. That moment really stood out and spoke to me because I do the exact same thing no matter the severity of the mistake. My brain won't let me forget a stupid thing I did 5 years ago.

Took the words out of my mouth.

School. I'm always afraid I'm gonna fail and end up being homeless or getting some crap job for 7 bucks an hour and I'm gonna barley have any money and I won't be anybody. School makes me afraid I'm gonna end up like that.

Roaches. Not that I have them, but that some lawbreaking doofus will bring them. I live in an apartment complex that is spread out over several buildings, and sometimes we get a family moving in that 'insists' on having extra people move in (even if it's breaking the lease, and it's most often done covertly.) Well, in one building one tenet family did that, and these extra people (turns out they were another family) brought roaches with them. Management has been having a heck of a time getting rid of these things, because as soon as they treat one apartment in that building, the roaches move to another one in that block. I don't know if they have finally gotten rid of them (I hope so) but it's just a pain that some people insist on breaking the rules, and then other people end up having to suffer for it.

Religious / political extremism and fanaticism, which will stop at nothing

drawing or creating art for someone else....I always feel like i'm going to disappoint them....

This is pretty much me. I'd have a speech prepared and then as soon as i get up in front of my classmates my mind would just blank.

Am I allowed to say everything? I'm ALWAYS stressed or anxious about something. Most of it is because of my OCD and panic problems though....

Yeah, more or less everything for me too.

Ah, religious people often make me uncomfortable, but nothing is worse than hearing the word "prayer" for some reason. I mean, I've had friends tell me on several occasions that I'll be in their prayers or something, and while that is an incredibly nice sentiment, I don't want to hear it. It makes me very anxious. Too much being told that I'm a slight against God simply by existing or that my "condition" isn't "natural", or that "God didn't make me this way" makes me anxious around many religious people.

It's why I don't want a religious funeral/service when I die. I don't want God or Jesus or anybody mentioned at all. My ghost will come back to haunt the people responsible if that happens! :tlol:

I actually have a recurring dream that I'm back in highschool and failing everything and I'm trying to keep my Mum from finding out. Stupid subconscious fears! :lol:

... all I can say is that it's a good thing Raph doesn't live in your apartment complex - the poor guy would be a nervous wreck! :P

When people mention religion around me I get nervous, too. Mostly because I am not religious in ANY way. Not Christian, not Catholic, not Jewish, not Muslim. Nothing. (I do believe in an afterlife, but what I believe in is relatively different than the ones you hear about in religious texts and so on.) I've had a lot of backlash from expressing that, too. A girl at school two years ago told me that I'm gonna "go to hell for not believing in God" and others told me that I should come to church with them and be saved. There's also the whole thing where people tell me that its a sin to be gay, lesbian, ect. and that hurts a lot to hear but that's a whole different thing that I wish not to get into.